Remember Crocodile Dundee (#2 post)

[Sky]

Jorg closed the first thread due to lack of content so I thought I would give it another go.

This is from 2000 and rather old but I did not know of his demise until I read the article. I do remember reading about the 1988 award he had received and enjoyed the movies with Paul Hogan. Sad on many levels

https://www.google.com/url?q=http:/...ds-cse&usg=AFQjCNE-r35qlWstaZU011H6geP8MrIR9A

This is not to bash the Aussi government, cops who represent the government or anyone else. It is just to show some what can happen unless we all band together (NRA or half a dozen other 2a support organizations) and insure our elected officials understand and respect 2a and our rights for self protection as individuals and citizens. Maybe one of our Australian members can shed some light on the article as to it's veracity?

Bottom line to me is it is better to stop the mischief before it gets started than afterwards as the ink is drying.

It was reported that 44-year-old blond-haired Rodney William Ansell resembled uncannily Paul Hogan, the actor who played his part in the movie and the sequel. Although Ansell was no angel and had had previous run-ins with police, he had been named 1988 Australian Northern Territory Man of the Year for inspiring the movie and putting "the Australian Outback on the map."

What motivated this shooting? In 1996, Australia adopted draconian gun control laws banning certain guns (60 percent of all firearms), requiring registration of all firearms and licensing of all gun owners. "Crocodile Dundee" believed the police were coming to confiscate his unregistered firearms.

The article further states the crime rate ( as you would expect ) went up after the guns were removed.

 

[Walkalong]

Ok, you mentioned guns this time. What is it you wish to discuss exactly, and to what point?

 

[RustHunter87]

Be that as it may, at a cost of $500 million, out of an estimated 7 million firearms (of which 2.8 million were prohibited), only 640,000 guns were surrendered to police. What has been the result? Same as in England. Like in Great Britain, crime Down Under has escalated.

Twelve months after the law was implemented in 1997, there has been a 44 percent increase in armed robberies, an 8.6 percent increase in aggravated assaults, and a 3.2 percent increase in homicides. That same year in the state of Victoria, there was a 300 percent increase in homicides committed with firearms. The following year, robberies increased almost 60 percent in South Australia. By 1999, assaults had increased in New South Wales by almost 20 percent.

Two years after the ban, there have been further increases in crime: armed robberies by 73 percent; unarmed robberies by 28 percent; kidnappings by 38 percent; assaults by 17 percent; manslaughter by 29 percent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Boy, it seems gun control must work

Thanks for bringing this back up, i dint realize how far the land down under had fallen, shame


I thought this thread meant Paul Hogan had died, but this is still sad maybe more so

 

[JustinJ]

There are a lot of misleading statistics and lies circulating about Australia related to their gun ban. This article reprints many of the ones started by a chain email some time back.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp

Also, the articles claims that only 640,000 guns of 7 million were recovered in the ban. If this is true, would that not mean that a huge number of the guns were still owned by the good guys? It also implies that removal of said guns resulted in a drastic crime wave. So the remaining 6.3 million guns are not sufficient to deter crime but 7 million are?

 

[Art Eatman]

Still not worth the bandwidth.